If you haven’t seen “Shit Girls Say” on YouTube, or any of its subsequent parodies, you must be living under a rock. The original “Shit Girls Say” features a guy dressed in drag, and inexplicably Juliette Lewis, apparently mimicking the kind of language that women use when they are interacting with one another.

A lot of my female friends have been reposting “Shit Girls Say” on Facebook, but I can’t understand why because it is completely offensive. First, the “girl” in the video is a man, and the show itself is written by two men. This in itself is problematic. These guys are taking control of a female mouthpiece, which is bad enough in itself, but then implying that every woman talks in a certain--read, idiotic--way. Plus, of course, the language of the title itself, namely "girls," although I assume that the ladies depicted in this video are over eighteen.

Second, the girl in video is completely idiotic, only interesting in talking about fashion, boys and their own bodily insecurities. She also is completely helpless, asking her friends or random strangers for computer help. Additionally, for example, she has to pause in the middle of the street to remember if she has locked the door to her apartment.

The strangest part might be feminist Lewis’ participation, yelling “Twinsies!” and other adolescent catchphrases with the lead “girl” in the video. I like to hope her relationship with her female friends is anything like the one in the video because it would be dull just to talk about romantic relationships all of the time.

Luckily, there are some people who are as pissed off as I am about “Shit Girls Say.” Comic and writer Rose Surnow set up a Twitter account called “Real Shit Girls Say” to respond to the hijacking of female voices by men who stereotype them as men-obsessed idiots. A few of the best Tweets she has posted is “Stop letting men in entertainment stereotype me,” “I wish these male comedians would stop doing impressions of me sounding like a fucking idiot,” and “I wish men didn’t expect me to be skinny, gorgeous and sexy and then make fun of me for the effort it takes.”

Another response is “Shit White Girls Say…to Black Girls” posted the other day by comedian Franchesca Ramsey. Ramsey uses her personal experience as a black woman to recreate the interactions she’s had with white women, who try to predict her life experiences.

What do you think of “Shit Girls Say”?